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Adjuncts at odds with current union leaders in run-up to internal election

A number of adjunct professors unsatisfied with union leadership will run for executive positions within NYU’s adjunct union, citing lackluster communication from current leadership.

Yezen Saadah, News Editor • May 4, 2023

A group of adjunct professors have joined together to mount a challenge against the current leadership of the union that represents them, who they say have, at times, communicated...

The cheap labor of academia

Ania Keenan, Staff Writer • November 3, 2022

How a string of student deaths in the early 2000s shaped NYU’s architecture, curriculum and mental health services.

Editorial: NYU’s adjunct union tentative contract shouldn’t have taken this long

NYU and its adjunct union have finally reached a tentative agreement, but it took a threat to strike to get there.

WSN Editorial Board • November 2, 2022

The union representing NYU’s adjunct faculty, ACT-UAW Local 7902, finally reached a tentative contract with the university early Tuesday morning after six months...

Explained: The contract dispute between NYU and its adjunct faculty union

ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union representing adjunct workers at NYU, has begun voting to authorize a strike if negotiations for a new contract with the university fail.

Abby Wilson, News Editor • September 28, 2022

The union representing NYU adjunct faculty began voting to authorize a strike on Monday, Sept. 26. If passed, the vote will allow adjunct faculty to call a strike if they are unable...

Adjunct faculty begin negotiations for new union contract

Supporters marched in solidarity with ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union representing adjunct faculty at NYU, as they begin negotiations with the university over their next contract.

Gillian Blum, Copy Chief • April 19, 2022

ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union representing members of NYU’s adjunct faculty, began negotiations with the university for their next collective bargaining agreement. Faculty and...

CAS junior Ron Hall selected as next NYU student gov’t chair

NYU’s Student Government Assembly elected a new chair and passed resolutions addressing the adjunct faculty union’s upcoming contract negotiations and mental health provisions on city transportation.

Lauren Ashe, Senior Staff Writer • April 11, 2022

NYU’s Student Government Assembly elected a new chairp and passed resolutions addressing the adjunct faculty union’s upcoming contract negotiations and mental health provisions on city transportation.